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DESIGN ART, CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE & WOODWORKING CLASSES
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Design Art Furniture, not something you can just go out and buy, at any price. Art tells us about ourselves but requires us to engage with its creation.....
This
is furniture that you cannot simply buy. This
is unique, handmade, genuine quality, designed with you,and made just for you. Nobody else
will have the same piece . Simply the
best.....

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Gracie: A Girl Made Good
Furniture artist designer David Savage announces the arrival
of “Gracie” a new curvacious dining chair shown here made in solid
English Walnut.
Handmade at Rowden Farm Workshops in Devon England this is another
piece that confirms the world wide reputation of Rowden a centre
for woodworking excellance. Quality in design and workmanship....
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Luxury pure luxury...
Forget for a while about those so called luxury items that
are really mass produced.
This is genuine luxury. Only made for you. Furniture designed
by an artist, just for you. Unique, nobody else has the same piece
as you. It simply is not possible to just buy this furniture.
You need to get involved you need to play a part in its creation,
spend a little precious time. Talking to us , thinking and helping
us to understand you, your home how you live. What it is you need
this piece is to do for you, to say about you.
Fenella and John
I feel like these chairs have been in the studio for years, and
indeed they have been. John and Fenella, our lovely clients have
needed infinite patience to follow our slow progress. However,
what I feel now is a product that iswell worth the wait.... [
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The Walnut Tree that lives forever
There was a time many years ago when I felt that selling my furniture was best achieved by standing in front of a few carefully chosen pieces at an exhibition and talking to people. In many ways... [ read more ]
Million Dollar Table
What I want is a table that looks a Million Dollars. My client pointed to a dining room that was visible from the Carrara marble floored entrance hall. It was to sit there all dark and magnificent, not really for use mind you, a bit like limo heels are on shoes... [ read more ]
Useable sculpture
When I was first asked if we made garden furniture, I did pause for thought. Had the enquiry not come from an established client who knew me and knew how we worked I might have said, no, not usually... [ read more ]
Linen fold sideboard
We call it Linenfold because the effect i want is similar to the folds of fabric hanging from a curtain pole. It is also an allusion back to Tudor period oak panelling when there was a fashion for carved "linen Fold" panels... [ read more ]
A Loving Story... I do so love a good story, well it all started when I was getting married to my Muse, I know artists should never marry Muses but what the hell... [ read more ]
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Art and Innovation:
Is innovation a signal of the presence of a genuine creative act or just something new? .........
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Furniture maker gets new job in top Workshop
Congratulations to Jonathan Greenwood who has landed a rarely available position in one of Britains top furniture making craft workshops. Greame Scott Furniture are not a well known name, they work from a small backstreet workshop in Devon but they supply highest quality furniture to private clients all over the world.........
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Sad old artist needs WEB 2.0 friends
I blame my young collegues and my teenage daughter for this. I have taken on a Facebook page and I understand also a Facebook group. It is all rather sad I know, but I need friends........
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Bespoke Furniture Exhibition.
Alice Matthews invites you to an exhibition of her New Furniture Designs and to see the paintings of Helena Clews. The exhibition will be for one day only on Saturday 20th September between 10am and 6pm. The exhibition will take place at Sophies Barn 17 Silver St, Chalcombe Banbury OX172JR........
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Pearwood : Why I love this stuff.
I love pearwood i recently
wrote an article for British Woodworking agreat
magazine that I commend to you This is the kind
of stuff you could find there.......
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Elliot Guy : In Memoriam.
Elloit Guy was a student here.
It was only a few weeks ago that we saw him loading
up his stuff at the end of his course to go back
to his young family in london. The news that he
was attacked at a party, stabbed in the neck,
& killed, has come as a severe shock to us
all.Elliot wasnt the kind of person to get stabbed.
He was cool, gentle, a young dad with all to live
for, with all that life has to offer before him..
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Grayson Perry on Workmanship …
I recently heard this quote
from a radio program about Craftsmanship. Grayson
Perry is a British Turner Prize winning artist.
“A lot of young people are somehow put
off struggle and difficulty. Boredom thresholds
now, because of the nature of entertainment, people
are adrenalin addicted .......
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Zen and the Art of Workmanship …
When I returned from japan I
struggled, I had an idea, a powerful concept,
but could not place it, could not fit the parts
together.......
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Gracie, a beautiful woman ,or just a chair …
When I have an opportunity to
make a new chair I tend to jump at it. This was
a commission to design a dining table a possibly
a set of chairs to be first seen at a distance.
the context is a hard modern space with lots of
glass and white marble floors. my challenge and
i always love a challenge was to design a set
of chairs that would have an organic feel to them
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